wedding

i have just started taking wedding photos i have both minolta

maxxima and minolta dimage 7 both with flash and a flash bracket for

off camera but in some church's i have had like a brownish ting to

my photos. so i bought so soft lighting. the problem is the lighting

didnt come with instructions on how to use. Do you point over the

people, at the pepole or behind the pepole?? please help anything

would be of great help to get rid of the brownish ting on photos in

the church any hints would be great Thanks Lori

The brownish tinge could be from a couple of things.

1. The color of the ceiling lights in the church.

(Does the brownish color occur in one church or several churches?)

2. The filter (added or subtracted of which color?) used in printing the images. The machine operator at your lab is the one to ask.

3. Old film. If you film is not 'fresh,' the colors can shift.

You need to find a reference book or two on wedding photography: then research your area of doubt *before* shooting your next wedding.

A wedding is not the place to be experimenting with 'new' equipment.

Hi my name is Lori, I joined photo.net today. I have the skill to shoot weddings, but not a clue about film or printing.

By the way, I'm not happy with the results from my Minolta. What type of camera and film should I use for the next wedding I shoot?

I promise, this isn't a troll post, it fer' real ;)

Use Portra 160 exposed at 100 or 400 ASA color negative film.

The brownish tinge is dark yellow. It is a result of using a slow shutter speed in the

Church. In order to not get such a dank tinge in your photos next time, you should use

distance as your tool to eliminate the problem. The other solution, is to use a more

powerful flash unit; or an additional second flash unit on a slave.

By decreasing distance or using a more powerful flash, you will throw the balance of light

acceptance from mostly ambient dark yellow light to "white flash" light. It is like putting

cream in coffee, the more white cream you throw in, the lighter the coffee becomes.

Therefore, you want to put more "white light flash" power into your pictesures.

As it is, you are likely using a tiny flash on your camera. When you take a distance shot of

the interior church during the ceremony, this weak flash will not dillute the "brown light"

that is the church's building lights. These lights may not look yellow brown to you with

your eyes, but the film 'sees' them as amber.

Since you can't turn down the church's interior building lights, you have only 3 solutions:

1. use a more powerful flash;

2. get up closer to the subject;

3. Set your camera on manual and increase the shutter speed. If you do this, you need to

know what the correct exposure is. You can know this if you have a flash meter. Guessing

at it will likely steer you to failure.

Some wedding photographers like this amber tinge. I don't. They will think that the

amber tinge makes the interior look like a candle light scene, with or without candles.

To change these pictures you have, you need to take them to a professional lab that

specializes in weddings.

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